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de Arruda Raposo, Isabel Pessoa; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti; de Menezes, Tatiane Almeida – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This paper evaluates the influence of the classmates' age on individual academic achievement. The identification strategy explores a mechanism for the division of classes based on age homogeneity, with cutoff value determined by the Brazilian law of age at school entry. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates a local average treatment effect of…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries
Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Schiefelbein, Paulina – 2002
This paper assesses progress made in elementary education in Latin America from 1990-2000. Besides examining completion rates, it looks at four critical indicators: the extent to which repetition rates have declined over the decade; the extent of timely access and on-time ages of elementary school students; the level or elementary school students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Educational Finance